Sibling Competition Quotes

There was always sibling rivalry. Tennis, football, boxing, whatever - you always want to come out on top of big sis.

When you get a little bit older, you're always trying to do something different from your siblings.

The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.

I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

Who's gonna win between two brothers? The Klitschko mother's gonna win because she said it won't happen.

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Although I am the oldest with the biggest moustache, my brothers are progressively taller; I put it down to the extra potatoes they were able to eat after I left home.

I would have said that during the early days of my life there was never a moment when I wasn't fit. We worked extremely hard on the beekeeping line, and both my brother and I used to compete, particularly when we were collecting honey. We would each have an 80-pound box of honey and we would race up the hill on the Tuakau track and race back down. We just raced all the time, and we used to keep very fit indeed.

I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.

I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings.

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the Waughs, families with several geniuses. I'm one of four; competition among siblings has to be a factor.

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

I think, for the benefit of our parents, the perfect night out would be when Cate and I touch the wall and we tie. This is what they dream - that we'll both win. Because then they don't have to pick a favourite child.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.